Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (film)
Mary Pickford
in
"Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm"
Produced by
Marshall Neilan
Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm
Adapted by
Frances Marion
From the book by
Kate Douglas Wiggins
Photographed by
Walter Stradling
Art Director
Wilfred Buckland
Aunt Miranda Sawyer, of Riverboro, has a Heart Which she Uses for no other Purpose Than the Pumping and Circulating of Blood.
Josephine Crowell
Jane, Rebecca's other Aunt, is Softer and Kinder. Her Heart has Been Broken.
Mayme Kelso
Many miles from Riverboro, on Sunnybrook Farm, Lives Mrs. Randall, Rebecca's Mother.
Jane Wolfe
Because of the Mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm, the Sawyer Aunts Offer to Adopt One of the Seven Randall Children.
The Good Fortune has fallen to Rebecca.
Jeremiah Cobb, the Stage Driver of Riverboro, is sent by the Aunts for Rebecca.
Charles Ogle
"Here's money fer stamps and writin' paper. Aunt Miranda won't supply them luxuries when she's feedin', clothin' an' payin' fer yer ejjication."
"Didn't mend that hole in yer stockin'!"
"Don't fergit to wash behind yer ears, Rebeccy.!"
"—hope this oilcloth'll keep that young'un from scuffin' up the carpets!"
"Does it cost anymore to ride up there with you, Mr. Cobb?"
"Namin' her twins Elijah and Eliza will never open the gates of Heaven to that Simpson woman."
"I only learned a few days ago the Simpsons have never been married."
Emma Jane Perkins, the Blacksmith's Daughter.
Marjorie Daw
"My name's Minnie Smellie—my paw's the preacher—and YOU'VE got a mortgage!"
"I haven't got a mortgage on YOU—have I?"
"—and I once poked it Clean through a girl!"
"Scared Cats!"
"I'm Emma Jane Perkins and we've got Seven cows!"
"We haven't any cows at all but I'm Rebecca Rowena Randall."
"Roses are red, violets are blue—"
"These flowers aren't half so sweet as you."
"I'll learn you not to fiddle away your time—Writin' Poetry!"
"DON'T go up the front stairs! Use the back ones!"
"DON'T step on them polished floors!"
"I think I'm going to get along very nice with you, Aunt Miranda."
"I've my doubts! You're too much like your mincin', shiftless father!"
"He spent your Mother's money and left her with seven children to provide for."
"It's s-something to leave s-seven nice children."
The Only Undesirables of Riverboro are the Simpsons—Shiftless and "Poor as Church Mice."
"Heart fiddle-sticks! More likely it's yer stummick."
"DON'T start bawlin'! Your grandmother never allowed it in THIS house!"
"Gee!—what a little bit!"
"Just for that you don't get any!"
Thou Shalt not Steal
God Helps Those
Who Help Themselves
A Stray Sunbeam Journeys to Sunnybrook Farm
Riverboro,
Sunday Afternoon
Dear Mother,
I am safely here. My aunts are very kind. The brick house is ellergant, but there are no good sitting down places, except in the kitchen.
Aunt Miranda told me that you once ran away with Father and I can see it would be very nice.
Emma Jane Perkins and I are selling Smith's Superba Soap to get a premium for a poor family—the Simpsons. In exchange for 400 labels they give a wonderful prize—something useful and grand.
Selling Smith's Superba Soap—for the Simpsons!!
"We'll have ter bathe often'r than Saturday nights to use up all this soap."
"Missy Poorhouse!"
"I don't care if you tell your MOTHER—all your RELATIONS—the state of MAINE——"
"———and the PRESIDENT!"
From Riverboro Adam Ladd had Gone into the World, Won his Great Fight and Returned, Wealthy, Wise—and Best of all, Unspoiled.
Eugene O'Brien
"Are—are you the lady of the house?"
"This soap is of such pure engredients that a baby can eat it with relish and profit."
"We are getting a splendid premium for some poor people—something which they greatly need."
A MAGNIFICENT
BANQUET LAMP
for
Four Hundred
Smith's Superba
Soap Wrappers
Saving.
Sanitary.
Satisfactory
"I've known what it is to do without a banquet lamp myself!"
"My Aunt will take three hundred and fifty cakes."
"My name is Adam Ladd."
"Are you the Mr. Aladdin who owned the lamp in the Arabian Nights?"
"I hate that hat, Mr. Aladdin, worse—worse than Minnie Smellie!"
"HE TIPPED HIS HAT! and it'll be four years before we're ladies."
"Wellwe're the BEGININGS of ladies."
Visitors Day at School.
"Our dear Pastor, Reverend Smellie, will now address the school."
"I hope it is clear to you children that in the hypogynous monocotyledons we distinguish the funaria hygronetrica———"
"While we are on the subject—can any little boy or girl tell me what is a hypocrite?"
"A hypocrite is a little girl who pretends she is what she isn't—when she ain't!"
There's none like Minnie Smellie;
And when I catch her out of school,
I'll pound her intojelly!"
Shake off thy coward's fears.
And dry my mother's tears!"
And After the Prison-long and Yawny School Days there comes Vacation Time—Heralded by a Circus Parade.
CIRCUS NEXT SATURDAY IN THE SAWYER YARD
THE AUNTS ARE GOING TO THE MIDDLETOWN FAIR
ADMISSION ONE SOAP WRAPPER
REBECCA RANDALL
MANAGER
"Snips!"
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BOX-2
"Stop the band!"
DRESS ROOM
SINS
"Daredevil Dick will now purrform his TURRIBLE 'Leap for Life'!"
"Wot are we goin' ter do? Daredevil Dick has ditched us!"
"Get Fontleroy Scroggins!"
"Ladies and gentlemen! Is there a physician in the house?"
"Next we interduce Rebeccaretta—the lady bare-back purrformer!"
Rebecca Learns that Geographically the Temperature in the Middle Zone is—Torrid!
Curtained by the Night—Dark and Storm-threatening—Dave Simpson Steals a Horse from Adam Ladd.
"I guess you can't help being cross, Aunt Jane. You probably inherited it from Aunt Miranda."
"Do you think she will hate this one worse—worse than Minnie Smellie?"
For tears are all in vain.
I'd rather tread the crool world
Than dwell with you again.
R. R. R.
Note:
"Please don't let Minnie Smellie come to my funerall."
"When the steeple fell she was struck by a piece of flying timber!"
There are Mornings After—Without the Cold, Gray Dawn.
Miss Tibbitha Tibbitts' School for Girls.
The Only School for Your Girl.
Because--After a visit you would not be content to place her elsewhere.
The School--Attractive, well equipped buildings with modern conveniences, sanitary surroundings, fresh air and an atmosphere of culture combined with the instruction and features of out-door life, produce an ideal place for your daughter, to acquire her education as a basis of University entrance or life's work.
"They're all set against poor Mrs. Simpson 'cause she doesn't wear any jewelry."
"Wedding rings are the fashion in Riverboro, but Mr. Simpson was too poor to buy one."
"Oh, dear, if they would only give them away as soap premiums."
"My Mother's."
"If you think this would make Mrs. Simpson happy, you may give it to her."
"Now yer temperature's normal—we'll tell our plans fer sendin' you ter boardin' school."
"When you put it on her finger Mr. Simpson, all the ladies in Riverboro will speak to her again."
"I'm dreadfully ashamed I ain't never done it before."
"We'll stop by the Parson's this evenin', Sarey."
Aladdin's Lamp Lends its Magic Glow to Rebecca's Last Evening in Riverboro—
"This is the man who stole your horse, Mr. Ladd."
"As Mr. Simpson and his wife are going to run our farm, I'll drop any action against him."
"You're so nice, Mr Aladdin, I-I have decided to marry you when I grow up!"
The Departure for Boarding School.
"You may not use it this winter—but keep it-----as a remembrance."
Three Years Passed by. Three Happy, Hardworking but Successful Years, for Rebecca—Culminating in a graduation "With Honors."
"Mirandy would a' felt rewarded had she been here."
"I haven't told Rebecca how seriously ill her Aunt is."
"I'm glad I met the child—proud I know the girl—and longing to meet the woman!"
"Calm, fiddlesticks! Go down an' welcome her."
"I ain't dead yet———don't mess up the bed with yer flowers!"
"I reckin I've been pretty hard on you, Rebecca."
"I've just been an old broom searchin' fer cobwebs and scornin' the bright, clean spots in life. How you must hate me!"
"No, Aunt Miranda, I love you!"
"God bless you fer that, Rebecca."
With Autumn There Came the Harvest, God's Peace—and the Promise for Tomorrow.
"Now that Sunnybrook is sold, our family will live in Riverboro."
"Do you remember, a long time ago, when you said to me, 'Mr. Aladdin, I have decided to marry you when I grow up'?"
"I am grown up, Mr. Aladdin."
The End
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Copyright 1917 by Pickford Film Corporation
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